In the early years, a railway car served as the first kindergarten in the Tel Mond bloc. It wasn’t long before it could no longer accommodate all the young children, and with the establishment of new settlements (Kfar Hess, Ein Vered, and Herut), kindergartens were opened in each one. But the railway car’s role in education did not end there. For a certain period, it also served as the first home of the school in the workers’ camp, which was shared by all the settlements in the bloc. The “Palestine Plantations Company” helped support the school.
As the number of students grew, the camp’s huts were converted into classrooms, until the time came to build a proper school building in the center of the bloc. In 1935, construction began on a large plot of land. Lord Melchett II and Lord Sieff, who had by then built his home in the pine grove, lent their support to the school’s construction. Since the school belonged to the Labor Movement’s educational stream, the local Workers’ Council also took part in its management.
In 1936, the school building was completed: six classrooms and a large hall for celebrations and gatherings, which also served as a community center for bloc residents. For many years, this hall was the only public hall in the entire region, and it also functioned as the school’s gymnasium. That same year, the students moved from the camp huts to their new, spacious school building in Tel Mond.
Ten years after the main building was completed, construction began on a second building (summer of 1945). With the wave of mass immigration and the rise in the number of students, a third wing was added in 1949-1950. The school also absorbed children who were Holocaust survivors, adopted by the settlements of Ein Vered, Herut, and Kfar Hess.
In the 1953-1954 school year, nearly 500 students studied in the joint school across 14 classrooms. Additionally, about 500 more students studied in five classrooms at the affiliated institution in the immigrant housing complex and the transit camp (ma’abara). Throughout its existence, the school succeeded in maintaining its unique character as a shared school for all the bloc’s communities, even though there were other educational institutions in the settlements affiliated with the Hapoel HaMizrachi movement (Porat and Yizre’el), as well as a state religious school in the immigrant neighborhood.
The educational institutions of the bloc provided joint education for the children of the veteran moshavim, new immigrants, and residents of the local Tel Mond council. This situation was disrupted by tensions between the Hadar HaSharon Regional Council and the Tel Mond Local Council. As a result, the shared institution had to be divided into two: one school under the regional council for the moshav children, and one under the local council.